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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
21 Feb 2024
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Phony Fani Willis, Misguided Support, and the Atlanta Plantation
21 Feb 2024
Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.
Tanupriya Singh
Senegalese Civil Society “remains vigilant” As Top Court Overturns Election Delay
28 Feb 2024
The Constitutional Council nullified a presidential decree and a law passed by parliament postponing the February 25 elections. The chief election body has ordered that elections be held “as soon as possible,” with President Macky Sall’s term set to expire on April 2.
Hanna Eid
Black-Palestinian Solidarity; Clearing the Fog
28 Feb 2024
While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization and scale of Black resistance inside this country.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Pan-African Struggles Against Colonialism and the First Imperialist War: 1876-1919
28 Feb 2024
From the decline of the triangular trade to the rapacious extraction of mineral resources and labor exploitation, Africans have organized and revolted against western domination.
Julia Wright
How to Resist the Deliberate Medical Neglect of Our Political Prisoners
28 Feb 2024
The state uses tactics such as medical neglect, to slowly assassinate political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Joseph Sturgeon
The Exploitation Zone: The Caribbean as a Site of Imperialist Extraction, Western Paradise, and Labor Exploitation
28 Feb 2024
From the moment the first colonizers arrived in the Caribbean, the West has treated the region as a treasure chest for resource extraction and labor exploitation.
Jacqueline Luqman , Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Recognizing the Revolutionary Potential of the Abandon Biden/Listen to Michigan Initiatives
28 Feb 2024
It is prudent for Black people to join in coalition with the Arab and Muslim people collectively refusing to support President Biden and connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to the struggle for the liberation of oppressed people globally.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
United Nations Negroz
28 Feb 2024
"United Nations Negroz" is the latest poem from our Poet-in-Residence, Raymond Nat Turner.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: By the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, Dominique de Villepin, on the situation in Haiti, 25 February 2004
28 Feb 2024
Remembering France’s odious participation in the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti.